BWAHAHAHAHA
Re: #6. I’m skipping over the rest, because this one is golden. You say, in essence “Well okay, yes, but maybe it’s okay.”
Unfortunately, here you’ve landed in my particular field. Yes, 9-1-1 has been negatively effected. This underfunding will mean that NextGen911 won’t be fully implemented in even the larger PSAPs (Public Safety Answering Points) for some years longer than might otherwise have been the case. Here’s the point, however: The money is collected on the basis of funding 9-1-1. That’s what the law says. Instead, it was diverted elsewhere. Period.
There was a similar issue with another agency some years back, where fees were collected for licenses, and the money in the agency’s account balance was swept, essentially stealing the funds for purposes other than for which they’d been earmarked. I’m going to need to dig up more facts before naming the agency, but that’s the gist as I recall.
Back to #1. So the average Texan is a young lawyer?
#2: That’s why it’s important to actually reform the tax system. I don’t think the effective tax has substantially change for anybody.
Look, I don’t mind if you want to support Perry, but please, this idea that he’s a paragon of capitalism and a strong lifelong defender of border security measures has got to stop. Your estimate of ‘about a 100 million dollar’ needs a little firming up, too.
Every presidential candidate is expected to have written at least one book these days. I knew when Perry’s was published that my suspicions about his intentions were probably accurate. Well, guess what? Seems they were.
You know, trying to demonstrate somebody’s motive is something that’s done in courts all across the country every day. Stop pretending that I’m attempting to read Perry’s mind. I’m not. I can read his actions.
“some years longer?”
Actually, yes, as long as the legislature is making the appropriations and the process is open, “it’s okay.” There are costs to the State in overhead - collection, bookkeeping, disbursement.
The State cut spending, except for education and a very few others. No one gets everything from government that they want, even if we followed the recommendations from your Coleman/Naishtat/Anchia reference and raised taxes.
EMS won’t get to fully implement the newest toy for “some years longer” and the sovereign State of Texas won’t spend money collected from our citizens the way the Feds tell us to.
“Firming up” those numbers would require counting all the money local and county law enforcement spends.
However, the final budget passed 82nd Legislature appropriated $157 million in direct spending on border control for the next two years. In addition to the usual DPS functions, the State purchased helicopters and initiated the Ranger Recon Team .
Border counties and their Sheriff’s Coalitions are spending their own money to assist in training Mexico police and federal forces to combat the drug coalitions in addition to more routine police work by both city and county LEO’s. As the Governor has pointed out, we incur costs to jail arrested and convicted illegal aliens.
What I said that the Governor’s background is familiar to the average Texan. I believe that you tried to made the correlation between the staff at the Capitol and Wall Street. Those young lawyers aren’t “Wall Street.”
Does your clairvoyance give you special insight into why the Governor wrote “On My Honor?”